A couple of months ago, WhatsApp introduced a feature that lets users react to messages using emojis. The feature is similar to the reaction feature available for Instagram and Facebook, where users can react to messages in personal or group chats with an emoji.
In order to react to a message, users need to long press the message, after which, a tile of random emojis appear for you to select. The feature is helpful since one can quickly reply or react to a message.
When you react to a message with an emoji, WhatsApp sends a notification of the reaction to the person you’re messaging.
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However, these reaction notifications can get annoying sometimes. For instance, if multiple people in group chat react to your message, you will get a thread of notifications, and this can irritating.
Luckily, the Meta-owned chat platform offers a solution to this problem, users can easily disable message reaction notifications on WhatsApp.
Let’s take a quick look on how to disable the message reaction notification.
How To Disable WhatsApp Message Reaction Notifications
To disable the reaction notifications, follow the following steps:
- Open WhatsApp on your iOS/Android phone or on your desktop.
- Tap the three-dot menu available at the top right and select Settings.
- Next, from the options tap and open the Notifications tab.
- Scroll and find the Reaction Notification option.
- Toggle and turn off ‘Show Notification for reaction to messages you send‘.
WhatsApp provides separate options for turning off message reaction notification for individual chats and group chats. So make sure you turn off the Reaction Notifications option under both ‘Messages‘ and ‘Groups’ options.
WhatsApp has also started rolling out the view profile picture in the group chat feature. A feature allows users to see profile photos within group chats on a desktop .
This feature will help users to identify group members for which they don’t have the phone number or when they have the same name. The feature is available for WhatsApp for web beta testers and selected WhatsApp iOS beta testers.
